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September 09, 2009

Is Mono the New Right of Passage?

It's official - Maddy has mono.

First morning of our college
tour (back on Sept 2 -- it's been a wild 10 days since) she awoke
feeling utterly terrible. Coughing, throbbing head & throat, and a
blisteringly stabbing pain running from the right side of her skull to
her right fingertips. A trip we were both excited & anxious about,
instead, feeling paralyzed in a Holiday Inn Express in Woodstock, VA,
with a really sick 17-year-old (who's also raging through a full-blown
Drama Queen fit that's she's never gonna get better).

Health-wise
I'm the most blessed person alive as I have personal numbers for all my
favorite practitioners (who are also favorite friends).

Our
doc called back within seconds and patiently described various signs for
things that would warrant me screeching tires for the nearest ER,
softly encouraged me to continue her antibiotics for her probable sinus
infection, suggested more tests when we got home, and kindly never made
me feel like an idiot or an exasperating parent getting unnecessary
preferential treatment when he had real patients with honest-to-god
appointments growing cold & pissed off as they languished in his
exam rooms wearing paper smocks. I love this guy.

Then I called
our energy healer who stopped eating breakfast to conduct her version of
a comprehensive assessment. She described several energy blocks,
particularly in Maddy's elbow and along an intersecting energy meridian,
told me to rub specific acupuncture points to alleviate the stabbing
pains, explained certain nuances at play from some former life my
daughter and I shared (she even told us our former names -- Hanishva and
Hareerah) and described specific breathing exercise to cool us both
down.

Antibiotics dutifully swallowed, rubbing and breathing
successfully accomplished (and they worked, which still surprises &
tickles me, despite decades of successful results from energy healing)
we headed on our way to our scheduled appointment with Muehlenburg
College. We missed the campus tour, but salvaged the rest of the day.

I'll
write the next installments over the next few days, but I'm realizing
the degree to which life takes it's own dang sweet unexpected path ...

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Is Mono the New Right of Passage?

It's official - Maddy has mono.

First morning of our college
tour (back on Sept 2 -- it's been a wild 10 days since) she awoke
feeling utterly terrible. Coughing, throbbing head & throat, and a
blisteringly stabbing pain running from the right side of her skull to
her right fingertips. A trip we were both excited & anxious about,
instead, feeling paralyzed in a Holiday Inn Express in Woodstock, VA,
with a really sick 17-year-old (who's also raging through a full-blown
Drama Queen fit that's she's never gonna get better).

Health-wise
I'm the most blessed person alive as I have personal numbers for all my
favorite practitioners (who are also favorite friends).

Our
doc called back within seconds and patiently described various signs for
things that would warrant me screeching tires for the nearest ER,
softly encouraged me to continue her antibiotics for her probable sinus
infection, suggested more tests when we got home, and kindly never made
me feel like an idiot or an exasperating parent getting unnecessary
preferential treatment when he had real patients with honest-to-god
appointments growing cold & pissed off as they languished in his
exam rooms wearing paper smocks. I love this guy.

Then I called
our energy healer who stopped eating breakfast to conduct her version of
a comprehensive assessment. She described several energy blocks,
particularly in Maddy's elbow and along an intersecting energy meridian,
told me to rub specific acupuncture points to alleviate the stabbing
pains, explained certain nuances at play from some former life my
daughter and I shared (she even told us our former names -- Hanishva and
Hareerah) and described specific breathing exercise to cool us both
down.

Antibiotics dutifully swallowed, rubbing and breathing
successfully accomplished (and they worked, which still surprises &
tickles me, despite decades of successful results from energy healing)
we headed on our way to our scheduled appointment with Muehlenburg
College. We missed the campus tour, but salvaged the rest of the day.

I'll
write the next installments over the next few days, but I'm realizing
the degree to which life takes it's own dang sweet unexpected path ...